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@carsten totally from scratch? That’s not easy to do! If you meant from a package (insta-microwave popcorn), you just need to buy the right one (good quality one), and melt some butter to “enhance” it a little, for extra flavour. It will beat theatre’s any day! 😉
@carsten I add sweet potatoes to my yellow lentil’s soup. Also white malanga, and ripe plantains. Of course, it also has cumin, oregano, salt and pepper, marjoram, paprika, bay leaves, finely cut garlic and onions. If I have cherry tomatoes, I liquify a handful and add them too. Love eating a big bowl of it with a little steamed rice, and one or two fried eggs on top. 😊
@carsten I add sweet potatoes to my yellow lentil’s soup.,Also white malanga, and ripe plantains. Of course, it also has cumin, oregano, salt and pepper, marjoram, paprika, bay leaves, finely cut garlic and onions. If I have cherry tomatoes, I liquify a handful and add them too. Love eating a big bowl of it with a little steamed rice, and one or two fried eggs on top. 😊
Today at Kimchi Korean Restaurant.

Chicken bulgogi

After over two years of absence they still remembered my name. I used to be a regular at this place.
@carsten worry not, “Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam”. See the reference.
Having a problem grasping certain details and expressions of a language, but trying to make a point with it, is a horrible thing. On top of it, your fixation with the same things you don’t understand hints at bigger, inner, issues. You need help, I hope you get it.
Having a problem grasping certain details and expressions of language, but trying to make a point with it, is a horrible thing. On top of it, your fixation with the same things you don’t understand hints at bigger, inner, issues. You need help, I hope you get it.
@prologic pick Russian as the language to translate from and it will give you a relatively decent idea of the contents.
@prologic now the avatar is back. 😂😂😂 This is really something.
@prologic now your avatar is fully gone, again. The default shows. No changes upon reload.
@prologic so sorry for not linking it. How stupid of me. Here you go.
@prologic why not just CloudFlare for Families? Just 1.1.1.3.
@prologic woah! What happened here? Is that boat stuck?
@prologic wow, they twisted your arm, and forced you to stay on a lovely place, with plenty of pampering. How dare them! Where do I sign up again? 😂
I have four Pis 4B on order since January. Expected delivery is 20 March 2022. Yes, it is bad. And now got worse.
@prologic I don’t. But photos go there, messages go there, mail go there, and settings that go with my Apple ID as well. I transfer from old phone to new when I replace them.
@<~duriny https://envs.net/~duriny/twtxt.txt> as long as you are still working on the twt client, it is alright to be offline. 😜 Often I want the same; sadly never fully offline. It is rather impossible here.
@jlj Oulson, yes. A sad, unfortunate, event that ended up with someone losing his life, and another carrying some degree of guilt for the rest of his life.
Anything I care about that goes on the clouds is encrypted. Everything else goes in the clouds as is, and that symbiotic relationship between my devices—and also the clouds—becomes even better.
@lyse it is good to see that hunters might have decided to leave the area. A forest without animals isn’t one. My favourite on the series is number 01. Those are strawberries, yes?
@mutefall he is an Aussie too. Super far from me, and, pretty much, the rest of the world. 😅
That Warren Buffett is as sharp as he is at 91 boggles my mind. He is the only financier I like, and admire. Here is his company, Berkshire Hathaway, 2021 Financial report.
@prologic, on my reply above I typed, and edited, and re-typed @novaburst@twtxt.net, three times, and every time it was changed to what you see. I don’t follow any novaburst. 🤯
@lyse LOL. This one made me chuckle, at least! See @novaburst? This is the way you link to XKCD. 😜
@prologic that’s the thing. The idea—I mean, the way I see it, but would love to see a debate about it—is to allow only what’s available on Markdown. So, the subset of HTML elements to allow is pretty short.
Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy! I know it was coming. I bloody knew it!
@prologic “I am gonna eat a pizza on the couch at 3AM”. 😏
@prologic could you eli5? No control in code for it? How is <iframe> being stripped now?
@off_grid_living that is quite neat! You got a trailer that is just the right size for them, and then some. What do you use to haul it? Is it a pickup truck, or just a regular sedan with a hitch? I also find the use of the drums quite ingenious for cultivating, as they are the right size. A 55 gallons drum would be way too big for the task.
Adding @xuu to this yarn, as he was interacting with me on this topic on IRC. What I am looking for doesn't seem to be within utils.go but I might be mistaken.
Where on the code are the allowed HTML elements on a twt, @prologic? I know, for example, that <iframe> isn't allowed, so there must be a small subset being allowed (namely <span>). I have been thinking about this ever since I saw a huge <h1> recently.
@prologic, this is the raw entry on the feed, on that twt:


2022-02-25T17:12:08Z\tAll my Flist sites:
https://flist.glitch.me 
https://canines.42web.io 
https://www.nuegia.net/~canine/
now have a Ukraine flag ribbon on the top left corner, that I made using <div>s and CSS, to show at least some kind of support.

I know it doesn't help Ukraine in any way, but I still wanted to make it, so it's out there, for anyone wanting to put it on their sites or anywhere else. 🥴
@lyse I can almost feel the rain on that photo! I see that, even if the sun is peeking, the temperatures remain low enough not to fully melt the snowman. Ugh, that reminds me our Winter is gone! 😩
@thecanine yes, we need to fix this. We need to further limit the rendered HTML that is allowed on twts, or make them a pod management setting, so that pod administrators can define them.
You broke formatting on your last twt, @thecanine. It seems using <div> without a </div> is no good. I am not sure how to avoid it, other than disallowing that HTML element.
@mutefall though we often try to rationalise otherwise, we want more than we need. That is true, at least, for us on the so called "first world countries". I used to replace mobile phones each year. Not anymore, I now hold them for three or four. I simply couldn't justify the expense, whilst the device I had on hand was performing perfectly fine. Paying more attention to finances is also something that comes with age, for some of us.

Ever since working for home, the work machine has taken the space on my rather small desk. I do not own a desktop computer of my own right now. Haven't for the last two years. That's bound to change eventually, but for now I am faring well.
@jdtron sweet! This is very exciting! I see it going far, for sure. I believe that's something yarnc does not do. Only clients known to handle threads nicely are tt, and jenny, that I know of.
@jdtron, I like testing, debugging, and often breaking, things. So, sign me in! 🛠
@prologic I just finished watching the video. They don't go into precise details on how it was done. They simply explain it was done by polishing it by a very fine abrasive to the atom level (or something like that, can't remember well). The video is worth watching—thought I spent no time trying to verify, or source, anything it was covered.
@prologic believe it or not, my kind of weather. I will pick a rainy day, any day. It comes to attest that the saying "grass is always greener on the other side" is quite true. 😂
@jdtron ah, I see! Looks neat. Would the user be able to move up and down with the keyboard, and have actions like reply, fork, edit, delete as well? I see it has a flat view right now. How do you envision threads will show in the future?
@prologic the fact that it is extremely and absolutely round makes it so round. It is, also, very round. 🤪🤣🤣🤣
@lyse oh my! Dear lord, much round, such smooth! €1M for the raw material, priceless after. 😳
@lyse the repair costs—well, maintenance, let's say—that I will have are similar to petrol vehicles, minus the engine, and things directly related to it. That is: new tyres, balancing, rotation and alignment of them, a small 12V battery replacement every 4-5 years, windshield liquid, hmm, that's pretty much it!

My Tesla is two years old now, and I have spent zero on maintenance. If it was running on petrol, I would have done a couple of oil changes now, and other minor fluid related maintenance. Plus the cost of petrol, which is off the roof.
What kind of rig do you drive, @off_grid_living? You will need an eighteen wheeler to carry and transport all that! I mean, just the 10 drums will easily fill a large lorry. Take it easy, young man, and have fun! I can see once a gardener, always a gardener. :-)
@mutefall, a though came to mind when this war started; we should be used to them, even desensitised, right? Yet, it doesn't happen. It hasn't happened to me. I am lucky not to ever have lived in a conflict area, nor experienced war close and personal. My wife, on the other hand, lived a big chunk of the Vietnam war. Wars are more than personal to her (as it should be for us all!).
@prologic tell him all he needs to do is making them just twice as big, and it will be fine. I mean, I use glasses, but have a good vision with them on. I am loosing my sight trying to see details on his photos! 🤣 I wish I could read the can labels, for example. I am just a curious monkey!
@lyse if someone knows how to sand off tiny corners, and build even rounder bubbles, that's you. :-) And boy, we need those rounder bubbles, and smooth those tiny corners! :-D
That's an interesting picture, @prologic. I find it interesting because it looks like the green tree does not belongs or—at the very least—its days are counted. I believe the area is being cleaned for some construction, and that green tree is as good as dead now, and on its way to wither and dry like the ones on its sides.

On the hill behind, I bet there are fossils to be discovered. As a kid I climbed and played on similar hills and found my fair share of ammonites. I doubt you guys climbed that one, did you?
@lyse woah, a few colours indeed! I liked 04 in the series next. Yes, I would have picked the same you picked to show. That contrast of orange, and greyish blue, is awesome!
Ever since I was born there hasn't been a year in which there was no war. I am sure that rings true for many, many, many, many-many years before I was born, of course. I am just putting it on the context of my puny—in comparison—life until now. We only know, and use, the word "peace" because it is a relative term.
Ever since I was born there hasn't been a year in which there was no war. I am sure that rings true for many, many, many, many-many year before I was born, of course. I am just putting it on the context of my puny—in comparison—life until now. We only know, and use, the word "peace" because it is a relative term.
@novaburst we haven't done that bet, but it would have been an easy one for our son to win: he is 21 and has never been in social media. Our girl, on the other hand… 😬
@ullarah's pod is fine. As I wrote above, every other pod I have gone to, to test the issue, it has been fine. Your pod is the only exception, including https://yarn.mills.io, which also exhibits the same problem.
This is on Safari. It shows fine under Chrome. Weird thing is, my two pods show fine under both browsers, so do the ones for @xuu, @carsten, @ullarah, to mention a few. The issue is only on yours.
@prologic, I have the feeling CloudFlare is breaking design elements on twtxt.net. Specifically the yarn counts. They show completely out of place for me. See below.

Yarn count on twtxt.net
@jdtron so far so good! Is it CLI, web based, or? Sorry if you previously wrote about it, my timeline often goes crazy.
@movq ah, that makes perfect sense now! I think you are right, yes. I got confused because there was some video editing in between, and it made me ask myself "wait, what?" in my head.
@movq hurrah! I see now the regular, non-festive, penguin. Let's keep an eye on it to see how it behaves from now on. Thank you!
@movq could you add a hash at the end of your avatar URL, something like avatar = https://www.uninformativ.de/avatar.png#20220224 to see if that fixes my pod seeing your avatar flip flopping from the regular penguin, and the one with the Christmas hat? Just as a test, if you could.
@movq other than the first part, with which I very much agree, what this relates to? What does he means when he talks about going to Auschwitz, and that there is gas ovens at the end of the line? I just don't get that part.
@thecanine his entire person is a grotesque joke. It just boggles my mind people supports a guy like him, no matter what their political affiliation might be.
@mutefall same here. In 1992 I registered my first domain with the InterNIC. It was olympus.com. I let it go somewhere in 1994-1995. In 1996 the company registered it.
I am wondering what ever happened to Laz, from Vltra.plus. The pod is at 0.4.1 version, which is extraordinarily out of date. Last twt has 2021-12-15T22:35:26+07:00 timestamp. Hoping and wishing everything is alright.
@darch right, see my reply. That's how it is right now on Yarn. A plain twtxt file sits on a machine that serves it via HTTP. Yarn is the frontend to it. You can manually (on the CLI, for example) add entries to that twtxt file, and Yarn will pick up the changes, no problem.
@apex a Yarn pod is a local twtxt file, with a client in front, just you what you are working on. Other than the extensions added (subjects, multilines, hashes, metadata) Yarn is, still, twtxt. The fact we are here chatting about it is proof of that.
@apex, I like the timestamp you are using, which is the reason of one of the issues I have opened on Yarn. I miss seeing a full date/time on twts. Rendering looks good!
Ladies and gentleman, may I present you the motherfucking US ex-president:

> “So Putin is now saying, ‘It’s independent,’ a large section of Ukraine. I said, ‘How smart is that?’ And he’s going to go in and be a peacekeeper. That’s the strongest peace force,” Trump said. “We could use that on our southern border. That’s the strongest peace force I’ve ever seen. … Here’s a guy who’s very savvy. … I know him very well. Very, very well.”

Certainly a treasonous "stable genius".
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present you the motherfucking US ex-president:

> “So Putin is now saying, ‘It’s independent,’ a large section of Ukraine. I said, ‘How smart is that?’ And he’s going to go in and be a peacekeeper. That’s the strongest peace force,” Trump said. “We could use that on our southern border. That’s the strongest peace force I’ve ever seen. … Here’s a guy who’s very savvy. … I know him very well. Very, very well.”

Certainly a treasonous "stable genius".
It doesn’t make sense to me to make a client offline first—which in my mind it means online is simply optional—when it comes to Yarn/twtxt. There is no use for it offline.

Right now Yarn works on fetching. Increase the fetching interval to 8 hours and it gets close. A client for it can be made more asynchronous, yes, like an mail client, but offline first? 🤯
@carsten be ready to rest, and keep hydrated. Reaction varies from people to people, of course. Some experience nothing, some a lot. All and all, worth it. 💪🏻
@novaburst but of course, about illumos, as it is based on OpenSolaris. ZFS came with Solaris. If there is an OS in which it runs well it is on anything Solaris.
@prologic how do you use ZFS via USB disks on macOS? Please let me have a howto when possible, I would love to do it too!
@jan6 you will find that Maya's twtxt is one way, there is no replying, ever. I believe she posts somewhere else (on one of the many other places you can post) and the same makes it to a twtxt file just for giggles, nothing else. Paraphrasing The Borg, "engaging is futile". 😅
Actually, we should always be in search of a better filesystem. Many swear on ZFS and, yet it is still to make it fully stable, and in wide use, on Linux. For example, RHEL, which is widely used in corporate environments, still does not supports it.

I read somewhere (can't recall where now) that with the mass advent of SSDs, file systems were due to more thoughtful revamp. I will try to find the source, and follow up. Unless I dreamed it, of course.
@novaburst so, and I am sure I am not alone, are you going to follow up with some context, or just going to keep it "enigmatic" for a puzzling effect? 😂 We all know the plate, and what it means. It has been around since I was born, and I am… well, old enough. 🙈
@ullarah, for as much memories as it brings, we will not last a day if things were to be back the way they were. CompuServe and AOL keywords, the ever difficult, full of rot dmoz, no thank you. Webrings were/are OK; they are still around.
@jsreed5 how so? It is only a DNS query, nothing else. Come on, let’s not be sensationalist.
Now I am curious about this awesome work. So many questions! What was the test? What was it aiming for? What makes it awesome? When will it be released? And so on. 🤣
@thecanine the fact that Alphabet, with its Google search engine, has had relative success proves that it is possible. It is not about censoring a fact (as China tries to do), it is about not spreading a fallacy.

I am not sure if you read the article. It is rather impartial, and simply noting the issue, and what could be done to help. I encourage you to read it, it is interesting—at least, it was for me. If you are paywalled, and can't, let me know and I will make it a PDF for you.
@prologic yes… unless, you use a proxy that will link Tor and non-Tor networks. LOL. I mean, it is a fun exercise, I am sure, but one I don't find useful for myself.
@thecanine "it should not be up to the search engines to actively police its results", says who? So, who is it up to? It is not about finding subjectively anything, it is about blatant lies and misinformation. A search engine indexes, and it has to be smart enough to do more. Also, as a company, it should have the human force to take care of issues. It can be done. Fully perfectly? Obviously not.

It seems DuckDuckGo can FuckFuckGo.
@lyse yup, that is correct. I spent $9 in the last 31 days. Wife is almost convinced to replace her car, when time comes, with an electric one.
@eaplmx that is the amount of kWh my automobile consumed in the last 31 days, and the dollar cost. As a comparison, my partners fossil oil vehicle consumes $200 in the same amount of time.
That looks awesome, @lyse, and comes across as built to last. Seriously, that's some strong box! You can tell people you are a true follower of Jesus, the carpenter. :-)
Each time I show this to family, they hate me. 😂
Charging stats
@carsten the PTR on that IP showsnnv-tor-exit-1.jr0.cc. They probably do not want Tor users. As they are using CloudFlare, I am sure they have settings turned on to block. From CloudFlare, "due to the behavior of some individuals using the Tor network (spammers, distributors of malware, attackers, etc.), the IP addresses of Tor exit nodes may earn a bad reputation, elevating their Cloudflare threat score."
@mutefall you wrote "endless amounts of older machines (e-waste) to build our own datacentre", which is quite true, not to mention affordable board computers. I am anxiously waiting for my four Raspberry Pi 4Bs to play with them at home, including running my Yarn pod, which currently spins on a Vultr VPS.

Ongoing learning fulfils one of the seven big investment decisions for happiness at old age (which, incidentally, I am rapidly approaching):

> Keep learning. More education leads to a more active mind in old age, and that means a longer, happier life. That doesn’t mean that you need to go to Harvard; you simply need to engage in lifelong, purposive learning.
It looks like conspiracy theorists are finding solace in other search engines that do not actively control misinformation.

> Praise for DuckDuckGo has become a popular refrain during the pandemic among right-wing social media influencers and conspiracy theorists who question Covid-19 vaccines and push discredited coronavirus treatments. Some have posted screenshots showing that DuckDuckGo appears to surface more links favorable to their views than Google does.

More on this New York Times article.
That looks like pavement, right? What are they eating (or trying to it) in it? I can't help but feeling sorry about their webbed feet, on that hot(?) surface. 🥵
Oh, I love this calming silence. Mute is a heaven send. 😂
@prologic remember the other half that voted for him, that still cries he isn't the president, that still believes he is? Well, that side. Also trolls. 😂
@carsten good question. I think many of us have asked ourselves the same question at certain point. 🤣🤣🤣
@prologic wow to the other side of the road, that's some backlog there! I am sure the rainy day is not helping either. How far does your trek goes? It looks like clouds are clearing on the horizon.
@prologic I was going to say, "don't drive and click!" then remembered that Australia's vehicles, just like the UK, and Japan, have the wheel on the right. 😂 Way to be welcomed to a ferry, oi! 😅
@mutefall howl is you need any help. We also hang out on Libera Chat, on the #yarn.social channel. Yarnd has a repository, which comes with an issue tracker as well.
@thecanine hahahahaha, I get it, I know it is hard. Meh, as long as you had fun, I will believe you. Happy Twosday!
@mutefall the more pods, the better! I believe @prologic has encouraged single user pods in the past. Even though my pod is open for registration to new users, it started, and is mostly, a single user one.
@thecanine be sure to take a pic and post it, or didn't happen. 😂 That's going to be close to impossible, but hey, miracles do happen! 🙈
What were the problems? Yarnd is Golang, is should just work fine.